Two headed Black Snake at the Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center. Black snakes are non-poisonous and eat small rodents , lizards and bird eggs, and keep poisonous snakes away from the area in which they live, they also eat other poisonous snakes . This one at the Nature Center is now 5 years old .
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